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Apple has released the SDK for the iPhone.  There are rumors that Microsoft may be buying Yahoo!

News.com reported ("Apple pushes Safari on Windows via iTunes updater") Apple's sneaky attempt to increase it's Safari web browser Windows install base. It accomplished this by adding Safari as as a default component of the iTunes software update.

 (Apple)

I think this stealth attempt to add unrequested software as a blatant abuse of the trust between Apple and it's customers.

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Apple releases Plugin Manager 1.7.3 for ProApps

Plugin Manager 1.7.3 - 864KB
This update improves reliability for Apple professional applications and is recommended for all users of Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Express, Aperture, Logic Studio and related SDKs.

System Requirements
Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later

Release Notes:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1190

From Software Updates, the Plugin Manager 1.7.3 weighs in on 1.3MB instead of 864KB. Interesting.

I was among those who paid for the Public Beta in September 2000. What a journey it has been! -Tim Godby

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Analysts: Mozilla’s Safari complaints ‘much ado about nothing’: "Industry analysts say there’s nothing unusual about the way Apple is distributing Safari updates to Windows users, despite complaints from the CEO of Mozilla about the practice.

(Via Macworld.)

Apple releases Safari 3.1 supports Web 2.0: "Apple today introduced the free Safari 3.1, what the company says the world's fastest Web browser for Mac and Windows PCs..."

(Via MacMinute.)

Last weekends trip to Kansas City ended successfully. After convincing miss Heather that yes indeed we needed a new router I picked up a new Airport Extreme (802.11 N) router. Despite wanting this router for many months, my patience was rewarded. Instead of "having" to buy a Time Capsule (which even with the student discount is 270 odd US$), last weeks firmware update for Airport Extremes allowed Time Machine to work with them.

Now only if terabyte hard drives were more affordable...

So, yesterday I installed an upgrade of iTunes and QuickTime (7.6.1.9) for Windows. When I upgrade a software I usually do not read carefully the instructions and often I just click the "install" button without any glimpse. But this time I did stop one moment before I pressed the install button. What is that? Safari?? What has Safari to do with this upgrade. One thing is that Apple have bundled QuickTime and iTunes..thats old stuff and discussed a lot. But now Apple just goes on with this bundle-strategy and use their upgrade mechanism to also install other products. This time it is Safari!